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  • Melbourne sludge band Merchant stream first track from debut “Suzerain”

    After a brief early listen of the debut from Melbourne “psyc drenched sludge” band Merchant, we can attest to the fact it’s an absolute monster. Suzerain may only be 4 tracks but it still reaches the 50 minute mark with “Seed...

    • Posted 9 years ago
  • Under the Southern Cross 8 only a week away; Earth Rot, The Levitation Hex and heaps more

    Not many annual music events reach the 8 year mark so kudos to Sydney-held Under the Southern Cross for the milestone. The event this year expanded to NZ, held in Auckland and Wellington over the last couple of days, with Aussie...

    • Posted 9 years ago
  • Opeth/Devin Townsend’s Manager Offers FREE Online Music Business Training Seminar

    Andy Farrow, the renowned UK artist manager (Opeth, Devin Towsend, Paradise Lost, Anathema, Katatonia, and more), with Rodney Holder, is offering a FREE online and live music business master class on April 12th at 7:30pm. The lecture is entitled, “How...

    • Posted 9 years ago
  • King Parrot Add Two New Shows To National Tour

    King Parrot, the Aussie grindcore band that can seemingly do no wrong, have just added two new dates to their national tour, which kicks off next week. Riding off the back of a massive 36 date tour of the...

    • Posted 9 years ago
  • Cemetery Urn announce third album, sign to Hells Headbangers

    Six years after Melbourne’s Cemetery Urn released the dirty death metal beast that was The Conquered Are Burned, they’re finally ready with another. While there aren’t any real details yet, label Hells Headbangers who previously re-released their first two albums on vinyl back...

    • Posted 9 years ago
  • Envenomed Unveil New EP Single, “Slave No More”

    Off the back of the awesome news that they will be opening for US metallers Trivium in Melbourne on Tuesday 12 April, Melbourne’s Envenomed have released a new single, “Slave No More”, to coincide with the digital release of their new...

    • Posted 9 years ago
  • Tassie band Throes signs to Aesthetic Death Records for debut album

    It’s always nice to see Australian bands signing to international labels and Tassie’s Throes is one of the latest. The long-time-coming debut (which you can read the history of over on their website, excerpt below) This Viper Womb will be coming out through...

    • Posted 9 years ago
  • Time to stock up on earplugs; Weedeater and Conan are touring

    It’s about bloody time Weedeater came out to Australia, thank you Life is Noise! The US “cough syrup swilling, hot sauce snorting weirdos” are still in fine form almost 20 years (but only 5 albums…) into it; last year’s Goliathan kicked major arse....

    • Posted 9 years ago
  • Premiere: New snippet from Gorguts concept EP “Pleiades’ Dust”

    A couple weeks back we posted ‘Wandering Times’, an excerpt from the brand new Gorguts EP Pleiades’ Dust. The EP consists of a single narrative song with a concept based around the medieval “House of Wisdom” in the city of Baghdad, as explained by Luc Lemay. As our...

    • Posted 9 years ago
  • Beastwars Announce Australia/NZ Album Release Tour This April

    Resident New Zealand sludge metallers Beastwars have announced a brand new album tour in light of their new record, ‘The Death Of All Things’; which is set to be released on April 22 through Destroy Records. They have also streamed the...

    • Posted 9 years ago